[oxfordgamers] Re: E-mail's lack of nuance

  Video conferencing setups aren't really what I mean (or what the vidoe
phone people have ever talked about). Not, with this special hardware and
a special type of connection you can see (usually grainy and jumpy) images
of someone else who has the same hardware and connection. Instead; call
someone and see them when they answer. The sales pitch has always been
based on universality and convenience.
  Is this technologically possible? Probably yes (though there are some
reasonable bandwidth and error correction questions to be answered). Will
it be delivered? Probably no. Who really wants a phone that transmits
their image? It would devistate some corners of the economy (Think of what
would happen to sex and fortune telling numbers if you could see what was
happening on the other end of the line.). It would almost always be shut
off in many households and would provide substantial amounts of unwanted
information about some others. It just isn't an idea that actually aligns
with a need in the marketplace, and unless that changes it will probably
never be a real technology.
                        John

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Greg Davenport wrote:

> CUCMe is about 5 years old now. VoIP is nothing really new (I installed a
> couple systems in 2001)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oxfordgamers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:oxfordgamers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Phillips
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 12:19 AM
> To: oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [oxfordgamers] Re: E-mail's lack of nuance
>
>   But the real details of the nuance can be found in the facial and bodily
> responses. Shall we all do the long promised (but unlikely to ever be
> delivered) video phones?
>                         John
>
> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Chad and Erin Wilson wrote:
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> > The next step is that instead of just text, the message contains an audio
> > recording of us speaking, thus bringing back the verbal nuances to
> messaging.
> >
> > It is doable and there are audio standards that already allow it to be
> done in a
> > small space.
> >
> > -w
> >
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> Library design is language design.
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>                         Proverb - Bell Labs
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Library design is language design.

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